Word: fittingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mother's having a fit about me riding the motorcycle back to Harvard," Gore noted, referring to the Honda he used to ride to visit Tipper at Boston University. "Dad's mad about my long hair. I didn't even think it was long...
Humphreys works at Sandia in a weapons engineering group, which does not do scientific research. He has never seen fit to explain to geologists at Sandia why he thinks their work to characterize the stability of nuclear waste sites is incorrect by many orders of magnitude. Doesn't he have a moral obligation to speak out? If these rocks have only been around for 6,000 years, then scientists' conclusions about their stability--and therefore their safety--are all wrong! It appears he would rather make trouble for schoolteachers than for his coworkers and he'd rather get his name...
...article, and would like to commend you on a job well done. Your team of journalists made sense in a week of the bizarre world of high school. To your great credit, you unmasked many of the problems in American schools--persecution by administrators of people who "don't fit in," a quickness to medicate anyone with a problem--along with many of the concerns of my parents' generation (alcohol and drug abuse, premarital sex). GEOFFREY HUGHES Winston-Salem...
...male tigers] respond to the cubs sired by their predecessors? The grisly answer is that they systematically search them out and kill them." The Darwinian reason, say Daly and Wilson, is that all animals, including humans, prefer to promote their own "genetic posterity." Unrelated youngsters don't necessarily fit into that scheme...
...more solemn moments of the movie, the villagers are fighting amongst themselves, questioning whether or not God exists. How does this serious episode fit in with the humor of the rest of the movie, and what are the larger implications of their questioning of their faith...